Beware the Painkiller

[Pinepower]

Could this happen to Port one day.

I am not sure of the legal implications with Workcover but maybe there should be some help for players when they finish the game.

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Former Crow sues club for $40,000

SEAN FEWSTER

August 18, 2006 12:15am
Article from: The Advertiser



A FORMER Adelaide Crows footballer was injured for life after being injected with painkillers and told to get back out on the ground, court documents claim.
Aaron Keating is suing the club and seeking $40,000 in damages over his pelvis injury.

Keating, who played in the 1997 Crows premiership side, says his pelvis fractured after team doctor Brian Sando injected him with anaesthetic, told him to "warm up" and return to the field following a rucking collision that season.

His statement of claim says he followed Dr Sando's instructions "by jogging on the spot and lifting my knees".

"On about the third step of this routine, I heard a loud cracking noise in my hip which I felt through my body, causing me to fall to the floor," it says.

In a document lodged with the Adelaide Magistrates Court, the 31-year old says he is suing because he has learned the injury is permanent, degenerative, and will worsen.

"(The club) failed to have adequate regard for the injury suffered and, as a consequence, ordered me to return to the field," his statement says. "(Dr Sando) failed to identify and diagnose the injury and failed to exercise a reasonable standard of care."

The document claims Keating suffered a blow to the pelvis during a ruck contest in the first quarter of a match against Brisbane in 1997.

"I was taken off the field and was told by a coach (of the Crows) to get an injection and get back on the ground," it says.

Keating says Dr Sando gave him "three or four injections of local anaesthetic" before advising him to jog on the spot so that he could "get out there".

Doctors at the Wakefield Hospital later diagnosed a fracture.

Adelaide Football Club chief executive Stephen Trigg would not comment on pending legal action.

[Porthos]

Even if there was help for players post-career, I doubt Aaron Keating would qualify. How many games did he ever play again?

[Andre]

Even if there was help for players post-career, I doubt Aaron Keating would qualify. How many games did he ever play again?
If it's a direct result (which is only Keatings view at present) of a club doctors action, then it shouldn't matter.

[Porthos]

Yeah, but that'd be down to club mismanagement anyway, so why a league fund?

Its not like the regular wear and tear that any and every player goes through to play in the AFL...groin injuries, worn out knees and such.

[Ford Fairlane]

Even if there was help for players post-career, I doubt Aaron Keating would qualify. How many games did he ever play again?

Given he's only after $40,000 he obviously didn't rate his prospects too highly!

[Toots Hibbert]

I always thought Aaron Keating was the luckiest footballer of all time. Big, fairly useless pillock bobs up for a grand final and gets a premiership medallion in one of the arsyest premierships for some time. Butters up the following week and collects another medallion in the SANFL for Norwood. Disappears from the scene having played a total of 3 AFL games.

Seems I was wrong. He fractured his pelvis by jogging on the spot. :eek:

[deeps]

how was the club doctor meant to expect a fractured pelvis from jogging on the spot?! I mean, it's such a freak injury, and i'm sure if they'd known it was fractured, they wouldn't have sent him out there.

A fracture whilst running on the spot has got to be one of the least likely injuries possible.

[shaz63]

I really dont think that the pelvis was fractured from running on the spot. Seems that what I know of the human body and bone system, that the injury was caused by the blow that he suffered during the game.

Here are the three different ways to fracture a bone:



Fractures may be caused a number of ways:


* Direct force; where force is applied sufficiently to cause the bone to fracture at the point of impact.
* Indirect force; where force or kinetic energy, applied to a large, strong bone, is transmitted up the limb, causing the weakest bones to fracture.
* Spontaneous or spasm-induced; where fractures are associated with disease and/or muscular spasms. These are usually associated with the elderly, and people with specific diseases affecting the bones.

He either fractured it during the game or it was a previous injury that wasnt diagnosised.

[Arsene Wenger]

I would assume hes going after the club as they are more likely to settle on a sum for the negligent advice and actions of the Doc. 40 k is a lot of money ...

[Pred]

I won't hear any dissing of Keating, thanks!

Anyone sueing the Crows has my support :thumbsu:

[Ford Fairlane]

Brett Chalmers and Jonathon Ross also recently had them before the Industrial Relations Tribunal with Workcover claims. Seems all their money is only for spending on gadgets for mad Professor Neil Craig ;)